Bosses at Nuneaton?s George Eliot Hospital have pledged a review after a patient needing a specialist injection was left with no one to administer it.

The hospital has apologised for the chain of events which meant Coleshill mum, Debbie Rennie, didn?t get the treatment she was expecting.

Mrs Rennie, 36, of Brutus Drive, is due to have a relatively new type of hysterectomy procedure involving the use of microwaves to vaporise the womb tissue.

An injection is needed about a month beforehand to help thin the lining of the womb so the treatment is more effective.

Mrs Rennie was given an appointment last week for the injection to take place.

?My appointment was 3.45pm but I turned up early,? said Mrs Rennie.

?I had to wait until 4.30pm to see the doctor who told me I had to pick the injection up myself from the pharmacy, which is in another building.

?But I was then told that by the time I had got the injection there would probably be no one left to give it to me as that department finished at 5pm.

?I was told to either return to the hospital the next day or make an appointment with my GP to get the injection done.

?I was flabbergasted. My appointment had been planned so the hospital knew exactly what was supposed to be happening, yet I ended up sitting at home the next day with the needle in its box. I?ve never known anything like it. It was simply shoddy.?

Mrs Rennie was left to call her own GP the next day to get the injection administered.

A spokesman for George Eliot Hospital apologised to Mrs Rennie and put the difficulties down to teething troubles in the system because the hysterectomy procedure was new.

He explained patients were required to pick up the injection themselves because it was a personal prescription but that in future patients would be alerted to this and asked to pick up the injection before attending their outpatient appointment.